Comparison of the morphology of oocysts and the phylogenetic analysis of four Ascogregarina species (Eugregarinidae: Lecudinidae) as inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences

Parasitology International

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-118

  Roychoudhury, Sudipta ^a   Isawa, Haruhiko ^a   Hoshino, Keita ^a   Sasaki, Toshinori ^a   Saito, Noriko ^a   Sawabe, Kyoko ^a   Kobayashi, Mutsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. armigerei; A. culicis; Ascogregarina sp. from Ochlerotatus japonicus japonicus; Ascogregarina taiwanensis; Small subunit ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASCOGREGARINA; ASCOGREGARINA ARMIGEREI; ASCOGREGARINA CULICUS; ASCOGREGARINA TAIWANENSIS; CELL SURFACE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHLEROTATUS; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BASE SEQUENCE; CULICIDAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYSTS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARMIGERES SUBALBATUS; ASCOGREGARINA; ASCOGREGARINA CULICIS; ASCOGREGARINA TAIWANENSIS; LECUDINIDAE; OCHLEROTATUS JAPONICUS JAPONICUS;

EID: 33847664134     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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